RE: [Axiom-developer] linux-static chunk

[Page, Bill]

Camm,

On Tuesday, October 28, 2003 1:00 PM you wrote:
> 
> Just a quick query and an observation --
> 
> Why would anyone want a static axiom?
> 
> Currently gcc warns about several c library functions used
> by gcl which must be present in identical dynamic library
> form at runtime even with the static image:
> 

Umm, well ...

The idea came originally (I think from Joris who says that
they produce a static version of TeXmacs for installation
on a wide range of linux machines, (i.e. no special library
dependencies to worry about).

But are you saying that this is *not* possible with GCL?

Regards,
Bill Page.